The last month or so, I've been watching a lot of clabretro's videos. If you find this sort of thing interesting (old enterprise software, and possibly the old servers/equipment that would run that software), you'll definitely like his channel! His retrorack is more from the early 2000s rather than the late 2000s, but there's probably still a good amount of cross over between what you're both doing.
clabretro does it all on hardmode too. Picks the most obscure, esoteric shit to try and get working: IBM i was the most recent, but his AT&T Merlin Phone series was great. I feel like the Sun Ray stuff was the most likely to be you know, actually documented in a way meant for mere mortals to read, and still likely to be hosted somewhere accessible.
The IBM i stuff, my god, the acronyms, the terse and unhelpful menus and error messages, the insane lengths to get a simple goddamn serial console, it's no wonder IBM gets paid to handle it all for you.
It doesn’t feel that 2009 is all that far away but… 17 years ago. I remember a lot of forums during 09” in fringe commodore groups and amiga. And they still go on.
But yes 2009 was a different time, to be a sysadmin all you had to effectively know was how to reinstall an OS and drivers and you were golden.
Just a heads up, There was a lot of problems running RSAT (Remote Admin GUI Tools) on Vista when interacting with 2008 R2. Windows 7 quickly became required for 2008 R2. (Windows 7 is client OS of 2008 R2)
None of the Windows side of that is tremendously far-removed from today.
Syteline... Progress... Ugh. I'm having trouble overcoming the violent undulations of my spleen. So many memories of performance issues, "dump and reload" of databases, and Progress clustering issues (though that was with QAD ERP and not Symix/Syteline).
Vista got a lot of hate when it came out but honestly, I liked it then and I continue to not think of it as problematic. It introduced `gksudo` to everyone and people complained about it but I was an Ubuntu user prior to using Vista so it felt natural to me. Overall, it was an operating system that worked well, as did Windows 7 afterwards with signed drivers and so on. In fact, those Windows versions got the reloadable graphics drivers at the time which I much envied since it was not so easy to get graphics restarted on Linux if it froze.
I had my Dell XPS M1330 set to dual boot into Vista. Power button would take me straight to windows. And the alternative bootloader Media button would take me straight to Ubuntu. Fun little setup. No need to grub chainload.
It's fun running into Vista references in contemporary TV shows, which run the gamut from "it's like a good pair of jeans" [1] to "Vista! We're going to die!" [2]. I was too young to form much of an opinion on it, but I remember it feeling quite unstable. I can say I preferred Windows 8 to Windows 7, though.
Once in my career I had to work with Sun/Spark machines :D very bad practice, doesn't like to move from current modern tools back to the wild terminals experience, for the windows it's even worst
Got out of the game in 2013, this is cool. The days of people accessing things they shouldn't and (the pretty simple method of) hunting them down. All pretty trivial stuff, but when I see the tools available these days, it's mind boggling but not surprising.
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The IBM i stuff, my god, the acronyms, the terse and unhelpful menus and error messages, the insane lengths to get a simple goddamn serial console, it's no wonder IBM gets paid to handle it all for you.
But yes 2009 was a different time, to be a sysadmin all you had to effectively know was how to reinstall an OS and drivers and you were golden.
Otherwise, rock on.
Syteline... Progress... Ugh. I'm having trouble overcoming the violent undulations of my spleen. So many memories of performance issues, "dump and reload" of databases, and Progress clustering issues (though that was with QAD ERP and not Symix/Syteline).
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[0] - https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5DlTexEXxLQ
I had my Dell XPS M1330 set to dual boot into Vista. Power button would take me straight to windows. And the alternative bootloader Media button would take me straight to Ubuntu. Fun little setup. No need to grub chainload.
1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Paw-EKCw_3o&t=86s
2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IfnjBHtjHc
Sometimes it just works. Sometimes it causes crazy issues. Depends on the wifi chip is my understanding.